Holywell Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1984. House.
Holywell Cottages
- WRENN ID
- roaming-storey-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP: Kevin McKenna (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holywell Cottages, 1-2, Holywell Lane, Upchurch
- OS grid reference
- TQ 850 670
- Coordinates
- 51.37259, 0.65682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holywell Cottages is a pair of cottages that were originally a house, dating from the 16th century and around 1700. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, along with structural red and blue chequered brick at the front, topped with plain tiled roofs. It consists of two parallel ranges, with the front section dating to around 1700 and the rear section from the 16th century, which has a continuous jetty.
The front elevation has two storeys set on a plinth, with a plat band and a wood dentil cornice. There are stacks on both the left and right sides, and the double return hips of the rear wing are visible over the roof ridge. The windows are arranged irregularly, with one tripartite sash, one wooden casement, and one stair light on the first floor, while the ground floor features two tripartite sashes and a central door that is boarded and glazed.
Local climate
Holywell Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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